College Baseball:
The historic 2026 season came to an end on Friday at Santa Ana College.
One day after the Dons overcame a 6-2 deficit in the seventh inning and claimed a 7-6 victory, SAC eliminated the Owls by a score of 6-2.
Conner Luetto was stuck with the loss after surrendering three runs on seven hits over 3 1/3 innings.
Luetto issued two walks and registered a pair of strikeouts.
Garrett Patterson was charged with three runs (one earned) on four hits over four innings.
Patterson walked three and fanned one Santa Ana batter.
Ryan Harrison got the final two outs of the eighth inning and Tim Hudson went a scoreless ninth and struck out two.
Nikko Paoletto went 3-for-4 with a walk, two runs and a solo home run.
Nathaniel Williams singled twice, doubled and scored.
Ken Tomitaka walked, had an RBI single in the first and a two-run double in the third to give Santa Ana a 3-0 lead.
Barrett Ronson drew a pair of walks and scored.
Jack Mueller and Evan Reiter singled and scored one run apiece.
Aiden Marquez and Treson Arita each singled for the Dons.
Andrew Phillips improved to 7-0 after going five innings and allowing two runs on nine hits and a hit batter.
Phillips didn’t issue a walk and registered three strikeouts.
Colin Galvin (2 1/3) and Bruno Banuelos (1 2/3) combined to go four scoreless innings, allowed three hits and struck out four Citrus batters.
Jordan Daniels had an RBI double in the third inning and scored.
Jackson Gray went 2-for-4 with a walk and an RBI single.
Derek Almeda singled twice and scored.
Dominic Torrez singled and doubled.
Joe Gilkeson had a pinch-hit double.
Julian Hines singled and doubled.
Garrett Patterson and Cole West had one single apiece for the Owls.
Box Score:
SA: 1-0-2-0-1-0-0-2-0-(6)
C: 0-0-2-0-0-0-0-0-0-(2)
Win: Andrew Phillips
Loss: Conner Luetto
HR: Nikko Paoletto (SA)
2B: Ken Tomitaka (SA), Nathaniel Williams (SA); Jordan Daniels (C), Julian Hines (C), Joe Gilkeson (C), Dominic Torrez (C)
Records: Santa Ana (38-6); Citrus (33-13)
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